On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 02:07:21PM +0200, ludovico van wrote:
> > Agreed. Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and
> > various packages install cron jobs implicitly.
> >
> > However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is
> > lighter-weight than exim4?
>
> what i do on my computers is putting
> QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon'
> in /etc/default/exim4
>
> this way no exim daemon is started at all, but i still can get my
> mails from anacron.
This is one of the best advice.
exim4 itself is very small and light and good to support alias etc.
ssmtp and nullmailer are well known non-daemon lightweight sendmail
facility but they do not do local mail delivery right.
But with this, we get non-daemon lightweight sendmail without short
coming.
Any negatives?
(Of course, if we need queue, we can always do "queueonly")
Osamu